Filmmaker Melvin van Peebles Gets Graphic

Melvin Van Peebles is known as the "godfather of independent film and modern black cinema." He directed and stars in his film "Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchy Footed Mutha."

The film is based on a graphic novel of the same name, which van Peebles also wrote. It's part-adventure, part-love story, "It's fun sometimes to let the ragged edges show," van Peebles said. "So that people can feel and see and understand. I like it like that."

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